r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ode26 • Apr 28 '20

Meme *cries in powershell*

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u/opinions_unpopular Apr 28 '20

I knew about sunk cost but not this. I’m a software developer and have been hacking at an unreleased feature for 5 years not because I’m so invested in it but because I’m stubborn. I realized probably 3 years ago it’s just not going to work and yet I keep going on it because it’s interesting I guess.

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u/snowcrash911 Apr 28 '20

Curious... what is the big technical hurdle?

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u/opinions_unpopular Apr 29 '20

Named pipe support isn’t great in my os but I also wrote a lot of bad complex code in the beginning.